effection
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin effectio: compare French effection.
Noun edit
effection (plural effections)
- Creation; a doing.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- Man is the work and effection of God
References edit
“effection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.